Bare-faced Messiah - the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

According to his official biographer, L Ron Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, philosopher and war hero. According to a California judge, he was a pathological liar and paranoid schizophrenic. This meticulously researched, grippingly narrated expose tells the extraordinary story of how a penniless science fiction writer founded the Church of Scientology, a cult that attracted adoring followers worldwide and made him a multi-millionaire until, pursued by the FBI, he disappeared without trace.